In most photos of the Rolling Stones, Charlie Watts always looked like the band's accountant. Unlike Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones and Bill Wyman, he didn't seem to fit in nor did it appear ...

“When he died my mind was blown,” said Wood. “We have the spirit of Charlie playing with us.” Closing the band’s fourth-part Epix docuseries, My Life as a Rolling Stone, the final installment, ...

What distinguished Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts from so many of his rock ‘n’ roll peers? His grace, for one. Unlike, say, the Who’s Keith Moon or Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham, who were known to ...

Watts’s authority was such that he interacted with the other players in a way that no other drummer of the era did. Photo: TV Times/Future Publishing via Getty Images (Editor’s Note: The writer is the ...

Charlie Watts and Mick Jagger take time out during the Rolling Stones Tour of the Americas, 1975. Photo: Christopher Simon Sykes/Getty Images Charlie Watts and Mick Jagger take time out during the ...

Without stretching the comparison too far, Charlie Watts was the Elvis Presley of rock and roll drumming: There was BC (Before Charlie) and after, and he can’t be compared realistically with anyone ...

During his 58 years with the Stones, Watts, who died Aug. 24, often let the other members of the band take the spotlight on stage and in the press. Originally broadcast in 1991. This is FRESH AIR.

I always thought it was a laugh-out-loud joke on rock ‘n’ roll that its best and most widely respected drummer was an abiding, committed and knowledgeable jazz hound. Charlie Watts, who died Tuesday ...

While his bandmates hit the Apollo, the reserved, jazz-loving drummer for the Stones could be found at Birdland. By Michiko Kakutani See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de ...